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Author:

morti

Boil Size: 11 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 28.8

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Plato

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/24/2017 7:10 PM

Notes:

Author:

Kanki

Boil Size: 20 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3.6

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/2/2017 6:18 PM

Notes: blue berries 150 g and black currant 100 g

Author:

Vulpine Brewing Co.

Boil Size: 13.45 Gallons

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 23.72 psi

Creation Date: 6/30/2022 2:03 AM

Notes:

Author:

Dr. Chicago

Boil Size: 6.6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 5.2 oz

Creation Date: 12/31/2021 3:57 PM

Notes:

Author:

rolandblais

Boil Size: 1.6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: 1.7

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: MapleSyrup

Priming Amount: .5 oz

Creation Date: 2/28/2020 7:40 PM

Notes: This is a guesstimate, from a kit. Malt Bill is from their "Every Day IPA" recipe, with adjuncts noted.

Recipe kit:
https://brooklynbrewshop.com/collections/beer-making-mixes/products/milkshake-ipa-beer-making-mix

Instructions:
https://brooklynbrewshop.com/pages/instructions-milkshake-ipa

Pre-Brew: Sanitize
Sanitization is important, but it's nothing scary. When brewing, keep everything clean so that you give what you're brewing its best chance to succeed. So when preparing for brew day, wipe any crumbs off the counters. Move any clutter that might be in your way. Read through the rest of the instructions (at least through fermentation) so that you know what to expect. And have fun!

Dissolve half of your sanitizer packet with a gallon of water in a container. Save the second half for when you bottle.
Soak everything you are going to use, rinse with water, and let air dry on some paper towels. If it isn’t totally dry when you are ready to start don’t worry.
Keep the extra sanitizer in a container for now. Chances are you’ll want to re-sanitize something later.
Additional Ingredients Needed:

3 Tablespoons Honey
Ice
1 vanilla bean (optional)

1: The Mash
During The Mash, you're extracting all the sugars, color and flavor you can from grain. You're basically just steeping grain in hot water. It's a lot like making oatmeal.

Heat 2.5 quarts (2.4 liters) of water to 160°F (71°C).
Add grain (This is called “mashing in.” Take note of jargon. Or don’t).
Mix gently with spoon or spatula until mash has consistency of oatmeal. Add water if too dry or hot. Temperature will drop to ~150°F (66°C).
Cook for 60 minutes at 144-152°F (63-68°C). Stir every 10 minutes, and use your thermometer to take temperature readings from multiple locations.
You likely don’t need to apply heat constantly. Get it up to temperature, then turn the heat off. Monitor, stir, and adjust accordingly to keep in range.
After 60 minutes, heat to 170°F (77°C) while stirring constantly (“Mashing Out”).

2: The Sparge
If you're familiar with brewing coffee, you should have an idea of how The Sparge works. During The Sparge, you put the grain in a strainer and pour hot water over it to draw out all those sugars you created during The Mash.

Heat additional 4 quarts (3.8 liters) of water to 170°F (77°C). (If possible, start this during The Mash to save time.)
Set up your “lauter tun” (a strainer over a pot).
Carefully add the hot grain mash to the strainer, collecting the liquid that passes through.
This liquid is called “wort” (pronounced “wert”). It will be your beer.
Slowly and evenly pour 170°F (77°C) water over the mash to extract the grain’s sugars.
You want to collect 6 quarts (5.7 liters) of wort. You will lose about 20% to evaporation later on, so you want to start with a bit more than you’ll end with.
Re-circulate wort through grain once.

3: The Boil
The Boil is probably the easiest step to understand because it's as simple as it sounds. During this step, you're bringing your wort to a low, rolling boil and keeping it there for a period of time while adding things like hops or spices. It's a lot like cooking a soup or stock in that you'll add heartier or bittering ingredients toward the beginning and more delicate and aromatic ingredients toward the end.

In a pot, heat wort until it boils.
Keep boiling until you’ve hit the “hot break” (Wort will foam - you may need to reduce heat slightly so it doesn’t boil over.)
Stir occasionally. All you want is a light boil – too hot and you lose fermentable sugars and volume.
The boil will last 60 minutes. Start your timer and add in the rest of the ingredients at these times:

Add Columbus Hops at the start of the boil.

At 60 minutes turn off heat. Add Lactose Sugar and 1/3 Mandarina Bavaria Hops

Twenty percent of the wort will have evaporated in this step leaving you with 1 gallon (3.8 liters) of wort. If your boil was a bit high, the surface area of your pot extra large, or you brewed on a really hot day, you may have less than the full amount. Don’t worry – you just reduced your beer a bit too much, but you can add more water in the next step.

4: Fermentation
This is when your beer actually becomes alcoholic. During Fermentation, your jugs should sit somewhere out of the way (and out of direct sunlight) while ale yeast turns sugar into alcohol.

Place brew pot in an ice bath until it cools to 70°F (21°C).
Once cooled, place strainer over funnel and pour your beer into the glass fermenter. Yeast needs oxygen. The strainer helps aerate your wort and clarify your beer (as well as catch any sediment from going into the fermenter). Add tap water to bring wort up to 1 Gallon mark if level is low.
“Pitch” yeast. (Toss the whole packet in.)
Shake aggressively. You’re basically waking up the yeast and getting more air into the wort.
Attach sanitized screw-top stopper to bottle. Slide rubber tubing no more than 1” (2.5 cm) into the stopper and place the other end in small bowl of sanitizer solution. You’ve just made a “blow-off tube”. It allows CO2 to escape.

Let sit for two or three days or until vigorous bubbling subsides. This is when fermentation is highest. You may notice bubbles and foam at the top of the beer. After bubbling calms down, clean tubing and ready your airlock.

Open your fermenter and drop 1/2 remaining Mandarina Bavaria Hops into your beer. This is called dry hopping and will give your beer intense hop flavor.
Sanitize, then re-assemble airlock, filling up to line with sanitizer.
Insert airlock into hole in stopper.

1 week later drop remaining hops to your fermenter as a second dry hop. You can also add 1 vanilla bean split down the middle for added flavor.

Sanitize, then re-assemble airlock, filling up to line with sanitizer.
Insert airlock into hole in stopper.

Keep in a dark place at room temperature for two weeks without disturbing other than to show off to friends. (If beer is still bubbling, leave sitting until it stops.)

In the meantime, drink beer with self-closing swing tops, or ask for empties at a bar that has some. If you have a bottle capper and caps, you can save two six packs of non-twistoff beers instead.

5: Bottling (2 Weeks Later)
Once your beer's in bottles, it carbonates naturally with the help of just a little extra sugar. It wakes up your ale yeast (that went dormant during fermentation) to create just enough bubbles for some nice fizz.

Thoroughly rinse bottles with water, removing any sediment.
Mix remaining sanitizer with water.
Fill each bottle with a little sanitizer and shake. Empty after two minutes, rinse with cold water and dry upside down.

Dissolve 3 tablespoons maple syrup with 1/2 cup water. Pour into a sanitized pot. You will be siphoning your beer into the same pot in the next steps.
Carbonation comes from adding sugar when bottling, so if you filled your jug with less than the full gallon in the last step, use less maple syrup when bottling. Using the full amount can result in your beer being over-carbonated.

Siphoning (It all happens pretty fast. You may want to practice on a pot of water a few times.) To see it in action first, watch the How to Bottle video at brooklynbrewshop.com/instructions.

A. Attach open tubing clamp to tubing.
B. Fill tubing with sanitizer.
C. Attach sanitized tubing to the short curved end of your sanitized racking cane. Attach the black tip to the other end - it will help prevent sediment from getting sucked up. It will probably be a snug fit, but you can get it on there.
D. Pinch tubing clamp closed.
E. Remove screw-cap stopper and place racking cane into jug, just above the sediment at the bottom (“trub”).
F. Lower end of tubing not connected to racking cane into sink. Suction will force beer up and through the racking cane and tubing. Open tubing clamp, let sanitizer flow into sink until beer just starts to flow out of the tubing, then clamp shut. Open clamp on tubing, allowing beer to flow into pot with sugar solution. Tilt jug when beer level is getting low, but be careful in not sucking up the trub.
Siphon beer from pot into bottles, pinching tube clamp to stop flow after each bottle.

Close bottles.
Store in a dark place for 2 weeks.

6: Enjoy (Two Weeks Later)
You did it! You made beer.

Put beers in the fridge the night before you drink them.
Drink. Share with friends if you’re the sharing type.

Author:

fight-me-grrm

Boil Size: 1.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 30

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 61 ° F

Priming Method: turbinado

Priming Amount: 0.8 oz

Creation Date: 8/6/2019 2:20 AM

Notes:

Author:

Gbot

Boil Size: 7.1 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/2/2019 9:23 PM

Notes:

Author:

Craigerrr

Boil Size: 12.1 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.066

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: 1.45

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/27/2018 4:18 AM

Notes: Add 152ml (76ml per carboy) pure cranberry juice, and 8ml (4ml per carboy) pure vanilla extract at packaging

Author:

RustyBarrelHomebrewing

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.051

Efficiency: 58

Mash Thickness: 1.12

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/24/2018 3:31 PM

Notes: update 10/5/2020. Adding additional process notes. When base beer is hald fermented add the blueberries. I get frozen blueberries from the grocery store, thaw overnight, then blend into puree in the blender. I used 6lbs blueberry for this batch but that is probably too much. It tasted like juice instead of beer. Probably next time use 3 or 4 lb. Scrape the vanilla bean and soak in small amount of vodka with lemon zest for at least 2 days before adding to the beer.

Update 11/26/18 : brewed this last night, decided not to go with the belgian yeast - it was really old, i wanted to make a week long starter to prove it was still viable and the number of healthy yeast in there is probably low. anyway just went with the 1056 now we will just call it a blonde ale i guess. teal suggested that blueberry muffins often have lemon. plenty of ways to do this but i think i am going to zest 1 lemon and add it to the vanilla bean vodka mixture for a couple days before going into secondary. decided the amount based off of this discussion : https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/how-many-lemons-zest.15966/#post-249484
also considered using dried peel. would have to order or go to brew store for that though so we'll try the zest.
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10/24/2018 : copied from 2016's trustmonkey belgian blond. removing cane sugar and LME, changed from pilsner malt to 2row, adjusting efficiency, adding some base malt to make up for removed sugars but also to increase abv to around 7. adjusting crystal malts to match original recipe percentages. switched to only hallertau for simplicity. im seeing sample belgian blonde with 5.6AAU for 60 mins (https://byo.com/article/belgian-blond-style-profile/) so ill go with about that, and add some flavoring hops as well. not sure how much blueberry to use yet......rb10242018
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copied from 2015's blinde recipe. came out with 5 gallons exactly but was under on gravity - 1.044 (without the sugar), wanted to hit 1.051. By chance I have some Pilsen LME so I will add enough to add 7 pts. Wort has been chilling for one day while yeast starter....starts. Adding the LME and pitching tonight (night after brew night)

Author:

Seaview Brewery

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.038

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/27/2017 2:20 AM

Notes:

Author:

twistr25

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.034

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 63 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/29/2013 7:25 PM

Notes:

Author:

Steinar Haug

Boil Size: 30 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.052

Efficiency: 74

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 23 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/6/2016 6:50 PM

Notes: - Orange peel @ 15 min

Author:

BrewNH

Boil Size: 15 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.056

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/4/2016 1:20 PM

Notes:

Author:

Trekker23

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.03

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: Force carb

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/15/2016 5:39 AM

Notes:

Author:

LLBrewer

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/22/2016 2:43 AM

Notes:

Author:

spdalton

Boil Size: 2 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.028

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/24/2016 7:17 PM

Notes:

Author:

BenMyton

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.067

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 72 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/8/2015 7:41 PM

Notes: This session-strength Saison of summer pours tawnygold and perfumes the air with tangy yeast and pungent hop aromas. The flavor is lightly earthy with spicy, flowery hops and a grain-and-bread malt character; caramel malt dukes it out with Saaz and Styrian Goldings (Celeia) through the middle before a palate-cleansingly dry finish. The blend of malt and hops combine to bring out the best in the real star of this sprightly Belgian ale: Wyeast’s immensely popular Saison strain.

2 Weeks Primary - 2 Weeks Bottle

Author:

Mig

Boil Size: 37 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 3.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/30/2015 3:14 PM

Notes:

Author:

Recklessbrewer

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/16/2015 6:06 AM

Notes:

Author:

pintzka

Boil Size: 25 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 76

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 10 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/3/2014 6:57 PM

Notes: Varm 29 liter til 68.5 grader. Tilsett malt, skal synke til 65.5 grader. Kjøl ned vørter til 8 grader før gjæret tilsettes, temperatur heves sakte i løpet av første døgn til 10 grader. Holdes der i 3 uker.